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NOTE: This development log does not include any of the pictures and excludes a few posts from the originial development log that were of less importance. This log was given some minor corrections that increased the readability of the log but I still recommened viewing the development log from the discord as it includes pictures that give great context to development progress. Dates may also be off by 1 day as sometimes I would only get around to posting the work I did the day before until after 12 am which this log does not always take into account for more accurate dates view the discord version of the log.


May 13, 2022
-Fixed connection errors
-Fixed anti-xray
-Added treefeller
-Updated Help Page
-Added /convert
-New players are now teleported to a random spot on the map

May 14, 2022
- added permission to hide and show character on the map; /squaremap show and /squaremap hide
-added permisson to toggle treefeller with /treefeller toggle or /treefeller on and /treefeller off
-added /map (to give map website) and /discord (give discord link)
-expaned Starter Help with a new page called Starter Tips. It tells new players how to open the map; hide player on map; use treefeller; convert gold; and teleport to towns

May 15, 2022
-increased spawn rates
-fixed chat
-added new tab menu
-updated plugins

May 17, 2022
-Added Voting, gives you Voting Crates, use /vote, to see vote options

May 18, 2022
-edited reward chances in crates
-added voteparty
-edited starter help
-fixed motd for server desc. to not say NewEarthMC

May 20, 2022
-fixed "moved too quickly" error
-upgraded from paper to purpur
-added towny combat > https://github.com/TownyAdvanced/TownyCombat
-added nether border
(tps is majorly improved and server is almost ready for increased traffic)

May 22, 2022
- started work on website
- changed squaremap address to map.altearthmc.com
- server can now be accessed with play.altearthmc.com
- vote sites updated with play.altearthmc.net
- updated /map to show map.altearthmc.com

May 23, 2022
-fixed most map website related issues
-main link now works for all browsers
-removed alternate link from guides and /map; the link still works just I see no point in giving it out anymore
-death coordinates message have been added
-updated essentials, spartan, and gsit plugins
-fixed planet Minecraft showing up as vote site

May 24, 2022
- more work has been done on website
- sieges can only take place during the weekends
- custom crafting has been installed
- when voting your vote is no longer broadcasted

May 25, 2022
- fixed chest shops being unable to be placed
- added custom crafting recipes

May 27, 2022
-fixed favicon (now just shows liveatlas icon)
-sponge recipe now produces 8 instead of 1
-updated towny
-updated spartan

May 29, 2022
-new players no longer get starter tools

May 31, 2022
- Worked on website
- Guide is now available
- fixed spelling errors
- moved "AltEarthMC" title to logo on the left.
- worked on groundwork for in game purchases
- new players no longer spawn with tools or money
- fixed treefeller not cutting fence posts on trees.

June 1, 2022
- increased render distance to 16 for all players (subject to change)
- added patron rank. If I see you online I will give you the rank. Please tell me anything you want added.
Patron Rank
- Patron prefix shown in chat next to your username
- wear any item on your head with /hat
- access a crafting table with /craft
- access an enderchest with /ec
- access stonecutter with /stonecutter
- use /tpa and /tpahere to teleport to players and teleport players to you. (with permission of course)
- lets you see total play time of players and server up time
-Patron will be a purchasable rank in the future, but now all beta testers will receive this role.
- website can now be accessed here, the address will be changed sooner or later.
http://altearthmc.infinityfreeapp.com/

June 2, 2022
- updated essentials
- updated gsit
- added saddle recipe
- added cobweb recipe

June 3, 2022
-fixed animals not spawning that often

June 5, 2022
-towns can now be reclaimed after 6 minutes of being in ruin instead of 6 hours
-towns switching from neutral to non-neutral only have to wait one day instead of 2
-posted ore map
-fixed anti-cheat issues (boats not working correctly)
-phantoms disabled

June 6 2024
-updated essentials
-added comayor rank for towns
-added new treefeller plugin (most trees should now cut smoothly) (you no longer have to crouch to break a tree)
-added stonecutter recipes to downgrade forms of ice and ice into snow
-added crafting recipe to upgrade snow to ice

June 7, 2022
-added buyable bonus claims (claim up to 20)
June 10, 2022

June 9, 2022
-full guide is finished tell me if I missed anything critical
http://altearthmc.infinityfreeapp.com/Guide.html

June 14, 2022
-fixed website guide for phone users. (may not look as nice but its more practical)
-added Towny resources
- updated chunky, chunky boarder, coreprotect, gsit, luckperms, mcmmo, spartan, towny, towny cultures, voting plugin, and wolfy ultils


June 15, 2022
-fixed mcmmo potions being removed from inventory.

June 19, 2022
-website domian done. Go to http://www.altearthmc.com/ !
-fixed discord link not working under "Join the Community" on website
-added main website to /althelp
-removed starter help pages and replaced it with redirection to guide.

June 20, 2022
-updated essentials and spartan
-added discord rules
-added Ip channel

June 21, 2022
-updated tip 3 on guide
-spellchecked the whole guide and fixed various errors
-added custom crafting recipies to guide

June 23, 2022
-fixed outpost and town icons not showing on map

July 15, 2022
-updated purpur server.jar
-updated plugins Chestshop, Chunky, Customcrafting, ExcellentCrates, GSIT, IllegalStack, Maptowny, mcMMO, Seigewar, Spartan, Towny, Unstriplog, WildernessTP, Wolfyutils, TAB, Ultimate Timber, TownyCombat, EssentialsX, EssentialsX Chat, EssentialsX Spawn, and Townyresources
-updated discord server rules

July 16, 2022
- patron users can now set homes

July 18, 2022
- reduced chance to get golden apples when cutting down trees
- added cooldown on cutting down trees
- upgraded proxy

July 19, 2022
- fixed issue with villiger trading on 1.19 clients by updating viaversion
- removed drops increase from mcmmo
- other woodcutting abilities are available now besides treefeller

July 20, 2022
- fixed issue with villagers not resetting trades after workplace is destroyed
- removed blaze rod recipe
- fixed custom crafting recipes not showing up in guide dropdown on website
- added beetrootseeds recipe


July 22, 2022
-updated server.jar to 1.19
-added nomoblag
-updated protocollib, towny, squaremap, playtimes, and worldedit.
-wildtp no longer hooks into towny which could cause issues in the future.

July 31, 2022
-added drmap plugin https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/drmap.87368/
-updated viaversion, essentialsX, essentialsX chat, essentialsX spawn, votingplugin, and gsit
-patron players can now upload images on to maps using /drmap create <url> [params]
example /drmap create http://www.altearthmc.com/images/Untitled_design_6.png height:2 width:3
Also make sure you have enough maps to print the image on the maps. In this
example I would need 6 empty maps.
-I've been hard at work on the eminent SMP trying to get them set up so I can relaunch the server.

August 4, 2022
- updated TAB plugin

August 26, 2022
-updated Viaversion, Gsit, Towny, EssentialsX, EssentialsX Spawn, and EssentialsX Chat.
-All towns no matter population have access to 50 claims. Can buy 50 bonus claims increasing in cost.
-Once server is well established a town will be voted on every week or so to receive 25 extra bonus claims.

January 3, 2023
-updated all plugins to 1.19.2
-updated server.jar to 1.19.2

January 4, 2023
-www.altearthmc.com has https
-map.altearthmc.com has https
-updated unstriplog and towny

January 5, 2023
-new map features:
-ores and caves down to -64
-redo vegetation so that trees can be cut without treefeller. (working on this)

January 7, 2023
-www runs on home server
-lush caves and underwater caves added

January 8,2023
-set up proxy server on shock byte
-fixed restart command so server can be restarted though the game.
-updated towny and luckperms.
-added towny chat
-switched to apex due to ping issues with shockbyte

January 13, 2023
Map progress:
-added icebergs
-ice cracks don't freeze over
-reworked taiga biome
-reworked seasonal forest
-reworked jungle
-reworked savanna

January 14, 2023
- working on decaying trees
- great pines biome finished with decayable trees finished

January 16, 2023
-worked on 👏credits discord channel
-worked on tundra, shrubland, seasonal forest, and temperate rainforest biomes
-tundra biome finished
-shrubland biome finished
-worked on grassland
-grassland finished (trees decay)
-worked on coral reefs and plant ground cover in various biomes.

January 17, 2023
-coral reefs will now generate between 55-61 in warm ocean
- Worked on website. By adding a guide to improving your frame rate, fixing up the header and cleaning up the look of the website on different devices. Website will be updated to the newer version sometime tomorrow.

January 18, 2023
-website has been updated go check it out! https://www.altearthmc.com/ (you may need to delete the site data to allow it to update)

January 19, 2023
-added some fixes to website
-playerstats have been added to replace playtime. Patron players can now see the statistics of any player and more.
-savanna fully finished with decayable trees

January 21, 2023
-temperate rainforest finished with decayable trees
-Seasonal Forest Finished
-Bees added to grassland and seasonal forest (beehives spawn on select trees)
-specific animals have been added to every biome. Spawns are different depending on the biome
-turtles spawn in a few dozen beaches across the map

January 22, 2023
-jungle finished
-no longer receive starter tools
-fixed trees not being spawned correctly
-changed welcome message
-mcmmo levels up slower

January 23, 2023
- map is fully rendered, please reset your site data so the edges don’t show and also to update all the changes I made to the website.
-Spent 100 bucks towards the development of a new towny plugin to try and give an alternative to inviting new players to towns.
-Fixed river biome being accidently painted in the southern artic regions. Still need to reexport map.

January 28, 2023
-completed backup lobby. Go check it out play.altearthmc.com (spawnpoint is broken)
-fixed trees spawning in tributaries.
-custom towny plugin added.
-started development on altearthmc release trailer
-fixed lobby spawnpoint

January 29, 2023
-replaced some images on website

January 30, 2023
-added que system to server in case main server fills up

February 2, 2023
-Upon server restart players are placed in backup server
-updated credits with bungeecord plugins

February 3, 2023
-players can no longer use /server to skip queue
-fixed vote site not giving rewards

February 4, 2023
-antixray now protects up to 100y
-wildernesstp now teleports new players to random locations on the map
-added /web command for website
-votecrate has a name instead of being just a regular chest
-spawn protection disabled

February 19, 2023
-fixed Keep inventory
-antixray now works below y = 0
-updated outdated information on ⛏ore-nodes discord channel
-fixed pvp, now works in wilderness
-wandering trader spawning disabled

February 20, 2023
-viaversion added to lobby
-bedrock support added
-sugar cane recipe added (updated on guide)

February 21, 2023
-modified sugar cane recipe
-beds can now explode in nether
-patron is now not p2w but has a few nice features. create maps, wear hats, and view player stats!
-updated guide to show modified sugarcane recipe and mention that caves do not poke above the surface.

February 23, 2023
Due to gold farms being a possibility gold has been disassociated with money.
-crates now directly give you money
-gold can no longer be sold for money
-guide has been updated to reflect these changes

February 26, 2023
-nether antixray added
-mcmmo no longer announces level ups
-zombie villagers now have 100% transformation chance

February 28, 2023
- players can now access and build on the nether roof
- comayor has more perms (please message me if a permission is missing)

March 5, 2023
-buycraft store patron rank description updated.
-brewery plugin added, and plugins list updated to reflect this

March 9, 2023
-worked on map to fix the following:
-ores generated from ore nodes that are below y = 0 are deepslate
-copper ore generates
-ore levels have been changed, redstone generates at reasonable levels. Other ore values have been tweaked
-sugarcane has been fixed, it is now commonly found in jungle biomes near bodies of water.
-trees in taiga biome no longer have fence posts on top.
-some lakes had their color tweaked. (water biome needed to be changed)
-underground rivers no longer get intersected by randomly generated caves
-rendered new map
-implemented new map onto server by uploading files.
-transfered new player structures on to the new map

March 10, 2023
-added voice chat
-made small changes to Improve FPS webpage

March 15, 2023
-mcmmo treefeller added back

March 18, 2023
- made 2 youtube videos and added them to fps guide

March 19, 2023
proxy paper server: -updated viaversion
main server: -updated viaversion, towny cultures, gsit, EssentialsX, EssentialsX spawn, EssentialsX chat

March 20, 2023
proxy paper server: added viabackwards
proxy waterfall server: updated gyser.
main server: updated votesites on votingplugin config.
- Got rid of ec2 server. (no longer worth the trouble to proxy nuvotifier)
- redid vote sites and updated vote webpage on website. (Iamroxstar900 didn't want to deal with them anymore)

March 21, 2023
-ordered plugin to fix turtle breeding bug on the server. EDIT(guy was unable to fix the issue)

March 24, 2023
-lowered amount of claim chunks gained from resident rewards plugin

March 25, 2023
-iron blocks and gold blocks no longer make anvil noises and show messages when placed

March 27, 2023
Updated CoreProtect, Luckperms, Towny, MapTowny, Siegewar, TownyResources, Protocollib, Squaremap , Worldedit, Customcrafting, Wolfyutils, ExcellentCrates, Nex Engine, TAB, Viaversion, and Simplevoicechat.
Updated server to 1.19.4; you may still join on older versions

April 2, 2023
-players that do not have a spawnpoint (bed/town) will be teleported to a random spot on the map.

April 9, 2023
-comayor can now use /plot and trust towns and players
-tpa and tpahere added to default ranks
-voicechat groups added
-set playersleepperecentage to 25%
-readded drmap
-shulkerboxes can now be opened from the inventory

April 15, 2023
-Removed double drops from woodcutting, mining, and herbalism.
-Acrobatics, Archery, Axes, Swords, Taming, and Unarmed no longer affect pvp.
-neutrality cost lowered to 2 dollars

April 16, 2023
-players can now run /boat on ice blocks to ride boats on ice. Plugin can be found here https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/ice-boat.109308/
-updated motd

April 21, 2023
-added HorseTpWithMe, which allows entities such as boats and horses to teleport with the player, this also includes when crossing the map edge.

April 26, 2023
proxy sever:
-updated geyser jar
-updated waterfall jar
-updated floodgate jar

April 27, 2023
-updated gyser jar again

April 30, 2023
-renewed domain

June 30, 2023
-african trees from custom tree repository converted (link to custom tree repository)> https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/native-trees-of-europe-template-repository-1779952/

July 1, 2023
-European, North American trees finished

July 2, 2023
-all trees are done, still waiting on permission to post.

July 3, 2023
posted the pack, find it here > https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/custom-tree-repository-decayable-edition/

July 26, 2023
Been awhile since I posted but I have done a lot of work on the map, since 7/3.
I have converted tons of trees. Including:
The conquered_ pack https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/conquered-trees-decayable-edition/
Cherry Trees: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/decayable-cherry-trees/
Custom Jungle Repository: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/custom-jungle-repository-decayable-edition/

We have also been planning out the biomes. We have included all of the biomes from the old map but also a ton of addon biomes to mix things up.

Base Biomes:
Biomes Legend : Minecraft Biome
Tundra - snowy plains
2 Taiga - Taiga
Temperate Rainforest - Dark Forest
Temperate Seasonal Forest - Forest
Tropical Rainforest - Jungle
Shrubland - Wooded Badlands
Temperaate grassland - plains
Savanna - Savanna
Subtropical Desert - Desert

Addon Biomes:
Location : Minecraft Biome
Between Tundra and Taiga - Snowy Taiga
Small Areas In Jungle - Bamboo Jungle
Subtropical to Tropical Regions in large low-lying areas near signifcant bodies of water (seas, lakes, rivers) - swamp
A few spots in temperate forests (rare) - cherry grove
A few spots in temperate forests (rare) - flower forest
In mountainous areas in deserts or shrubland (uncommon) - badlands
High elevation grassland - meadows.
A few spots in temperate forests (rare) - birch forest
Polar regions beyond tundra - ice spikes (not actual ice spikes more like glaciers)

We are still working on the layers for all the biomes, stay tuned for some sneak peek pictures!


August 12 2023
Work has been moving slowly but is still progressing.
Taiga, Tropical Rainforest, and Temperate Rainforest have all been completed with more biomes in the works.
Delta Research, the guy working on the heightmap, decided that he'd start from scratch instead of building off of the old heightmap, so the map is gonna cost more then expected. He's finished the shapes of the landmasses and .

August 18 2023
snowy taiga, bamboo jungle, shrubland, and cherry grove biomes all finished
August 24, 2023
tundra finished, snowy taiga updated to include ferns and grasses

Semptember 1, 2023
Ice spikes, plains, and temperate forest finished
This is what is currently done so far.

Base Biomes:
Biomes Legend : Minecraft Biome
Tundra - snowy plains ✅
2 Taiga - Taiga ✅
Temperate Rainforest - Dark Forest ✅
Temperate Seasonal Forest - Forest ✅
Tropical Rainforest - Jungle ✅
Shrubland - Wooded Badlands ✅
Temperate grassland - plains ✅
Savanna - Savanna ✅
Subtropical Desert - Desert ✅

Semi-base
costal temperate areas - Beach

Addon Biomes:
Location : Minecraft Biome
Between Tundra and Taiga - Snowy Taiga ✅
Small Areas In Jungle - Bamboo Jungle ✅
temperate, tropical, or subtropical regions in large low-lying areas near significant bodies of water (seas, lakes, rivers) - swamp ✅
A few spots in temperate forests (rare) - cherry grove ✅
A few spots in temperate forests (rare) - flower forest ✅
In mountainous areas in deserts or shrubland (uncommon) - badlands ✅
High elevation grassland - meadows. ✅
A few spots in temperate forests (rare) - birch forest ✅
Polar regions beyond tundra - ice spikes (not actual ice spikes more like glaciers, think Antarctica) ✅
Costal Areas in ice spikes, tundra, and snowy taiga. - snowy beach.
Tropical beach areas - Beach (w palm trees)
Volcanic Land - on and in close proximity to volcanos. ✅

Semptember 2, 2023
Birch Forest, meadows finished
shrubland reworked

September 3, 2023
swamp completed
flower forest complete
seasonal forest trees edited

Septemeber 5, 2023
Volcanic land biome completed.
Semptember 8, 2023
Tropical, Temperate, and snowy beach biomes completed
Novemeber 4, 2023
Its been awhile but here's what we are currently working on.
-We have gotten our first terrain export and with some experimentation I have noticed large trees take away from the landscape. These large trees also are a pain to cut down in survival because of these two reasons I
I have made the decsion to scale back tree size. The following scale shown in the images below is 200% meaning we are using pretty much the entire range from -64 all the way to 308 blocks high and the large trees are taking away from the shape of the landscape.
right now we are working on slope terrain. Hopefully we will have some pictures of that tomorrow.

February 9, 2024
-I know its been awhile but we have a few updates going on.
-Added a ton of new crafting recipes that will work great with the new map
-updated website to include these new recipes as well as include a development warning on the homepage.
-Finished Geode Layer which will spawn Geodes underground.
-added netherwart and sponges to certain biomes so they can be found naturally

March 3, 2024
-Heightmap has seen more progression with coastal erosion, more rivers, and more mountain development

May 18, 2024
Yikes! Its already been two months! I had to stop development for a bit due to exams but I think you'll be pleased to hear that the heightmap portion of development has finally finished. We are now moving into painting the map.
Unfortunately the map isn't as big as I wanted only spanning 23,800 blocks across but its a good size for the amount of players we will probably start off with. You'd be surprised how big 20,000 by 10,000 blocks actually is.

July 9, 2024
Hello again,
-any terrain modifcations has been finished much of the map has been textured. The brown coloring in the central mountain range has been fixed but I have not received updated photos on it.
-website ip has changed to https://www.altearthmc.net/ instead of .com .
-Fps guide has been updated to include directions for using multimc to increase performance as well as updated links to the latest java versions.


July 14, 2024
-updated lobby and sever to 1.20.6 along with updating all plugins to their latest versions.
-updated plugin list to reflect currently utilized plugins

July 19, 2024
due to the smaller map teleportation will likely not be an in game feature in order to make the map feel larger for the player base. I've added a few transportation balances to help encourage the usage of other transportation methods such as minecarts and nerf transportation methods that are too overpowered such as ice boats here are the changes :
-placing Redstone blocks under powered rails allows them to reach speeds as fast as 30m/s and obsidian allows them to be slowed down to manageable speeds for turns and stops.
-powered rails are now crafted with copper making them much more affordable as well as giving 16 rails per craft and regular rails yielding 24 per craft.
-ice boats have been slightly nerfed as I removed the ability to craft blue ice due to it being too over powered, packed ice and regular ice will still be available to be used and still will be slightly faster than minecarts reaching 40m/s but do not have the same flexibility as minecarts do as they can't slow down effectively.
-new crafting recipes have been added and the guide has been updated to reflect these changes.
-updated rules and information minecraft server command with new address (replacing .com with .net)
modified server voting sites to include updated addresses
-updated velocity server to latest velocity jar as well as updated gyser and floodgate.
-updated voting plugin to send users to the new minecraft-mp vote site
-updated voting page on website to send users to the new minecraft-mp vote site-
-the domain play.altearthmc.net has been reconnected with the velocity server.

August 4, 2024
New map progress. There are still things getting ironed out but progress is coming along
- southern artic has been textured and frosted
- Eastern Continent has been textured 

August 31, 2024
cleaned up player list, removed bugged %afk%, individual player ping, and added spaces for looks.
fixed mycmd so that /starter link to the .net instead of .com

September 9, 2024
-added accounting channel
-readded tebex plugin

Semptember 23, 2024
I recently got the opportunity to work on the map for a week while I gave the map developer a bit of a break, which means I was able to add and document a ton of changes and show them to you guys! Many of my additions were just adding features from the last map but there is a ton of exciting stuff to comb over so lets delve into each one by one. FWI none of these changes are final and things are still subject to change.

Rivers have been largely overhauled with a special terrain texture, plants, and painstakingly painted with the proper biome designations with blending between ocean and river where the river meets the ocean.
Artic rivers have received special treatment as they realistically influence where ice forms. where river is frozen the frozen river biome is painted allowing ice to refreeze if it is destroyed. I even added a small glacier on this mountaintop that I am very proud of (last pic).
Ocean biomes have also been added around the map and blended properly as the transition from ocean biome to ocean biome and some of the atolls have been moved to warmer environments.
Ocean biomes also have custom terrain and sea plants. Warm Ocean has coral and cold ocean bordering ice will spawn icebergs. A ton more surface Ice has also been added to the poles of the map.
Ore nodes and geodes have been added across the map, the locations of certain ore nodes will be released later.
I'll leave you guys off with this last picture. We are still sorting some stuff out but I hope to be able to give you guys more updates as time goes on, here is a before and after demonstrating the progress that has been made over the past week.
here is the full changelog for the 1% that are interested
-painted river biome over all rivers and freshwater lakes as well as on the river groundcover layers.
-river biomes and ocean biomes transition at river mouths.
-removed frost at river mouths so that rivers look like they are flowing into the ice.
-painted riverbed on all rivers
-added river plants to all rivers
-added a glacier to replace glitched river water at 6688 9848
-painted Ocean biomes and their respective layers on a few areas I missed,
-organized the water layers into a pallet and improved the naming of my layers.
-moved a few atolls to warmer ocean climate.
-painted frozen river on frosted river (What’s liquid stays liquid and what's frozen stays frozen) FINISHED
-fixed areas that were painted with the groundcover layers of river and 3 deep water stream as before the stream would cut into the area and make it look very odd.
-fixed a few small rivers that had their flow interrupted by terrain
-Added a ton more ice to the south and north pole
-fixed wavy terrain in areas where it wasn't supposed to be ie. grassland, jungle, some savanna, some shrublands.
-added small icebergs that spawn in frozen oceans and slightly beyond them
-added geodes that spawn all over the map
-added ore nodes across the map.
-added ocean biomes across the map
-added specific ocean terrain and specific plants to all ocean biomes
-added corals that spawn in deeper parts of the warm ocean biome
-freed up large river in the Northern plains so it flows continually (mentioned in notes)
-frost on ocean is frozen ocean (what stays frozen stays frozen what stays liquid stays liquid, mentioned in notes).
Here are some in-game pictures using distant horizons.
Some things may change but the terrain will remain the same as seen in these exports.

October 6, 2024
I am putting the project on pause for a week or so due to hurricanes, getting my college stuff sorted out, and school. The map developer unfortunately had to drop out of the project as he no longer had time to work on it. I will most likely have to finish the project myself but for the reasons I listed I will be unable to work on it for a bit. The project is not dead by any means as I will never give up on this project due to the amount of money I've poured into it already. 

October 9, 2024
I may have lied I ended up having time to work on some large portions of the map that only needed small changes.
This is the area I finished, I mostly just repainted some biomes, fixed terrain textures, and added a few plants and trees.

October 10, 2024
-applications got delayed for a little bit and the hurricane caused no damage so I will resume work on the map.

October 11, 2024
-textured terrain
-added plants
-added trees
-blended biomes

October 20, 2024
-Added Development Log to website
-Finished a few more areas of the map.
-Website Taskbar has been updated to not overlap website title on certain devices.
-Areas North of the Northern Line and South of the Southern Line are finished.

November 6, 2024
-Finished Some Temperate forest and plains biomes in the North.

November 9, 2024
-finished temperate biomes in the south (plains, shrubland, temperate forest).
-added extra biomes such as three birch forests, two flower forests, and two cherry groves to the northern and southern temperate zones.
-Temperate zone on Eastern continent is still in the works.

November 23, 2024
I know its been a bit but lots of work has been done on the map and I expect the map to be completed by the 27th of November since I am on break.
- increased sand on subtropical deserts to make them look more like sandy deserts and less like drier savanna.
- Two swamp biomes added
- Mangroves added to jungle rivers that have mud.
- Did a little bit of blending around the mountains. Transition from jungle to temperate rain forest. Still in the works though
- Worked on western atolls and volcanos
- Added a volcanic hotspot with a nice island chain. Still in the works though.
#areas that are circled are the areas that still need to be completed.

November 25, 2024
All islands have been finished and the last thing remaining is the dreaded mountains.
-The volcanic hotspot that was hinted at in the previous update post has been finished and has turned out quite nicely. Volcanic hotspots are basically what Hawaii is and behind them are a long chain of older, dormant volcanoes.
-The Basalt Delta biome has been placed around active volcanos to represent ash clouds and crimson forest biomes have been placed inside the crater of the volcanoes as it gives a great hot atmosphere.
-all atolls have been finished and sprinkled with a tropical feel.

November 26, 2024
- The map has been finished 🤞 I think anyway
-The web map has been updated. if you've played on the server previously and viewed the map you may need to clear your site data for it to show up properly.
- I will be doing a viewing event soon (tomorrow) where you will be able to play on the server for an two hours. I will @ the server for the first time in a year an hour before it goes live, I mean if you are in this server that's the one announcement you want to hear.

November 27, 2024
-updated the server to 1.20.6
-updated lobby to 1.20.6
-updated a bunch of plugins
-updated lobby plugins
-added two new crafting recipes for netherwart and balanced the shulker shell recipe
-dev log on website has been updated.
-fixed Towny Map icons not displaying on interactive map.
-updated proxy server plugins so bedrock players can play.
-updated motd so that latest join version is 1.21.3
-fixed wilderness tp
-disabled phantoms
-changed difficulty to hard
-fixed voting for topG
-fixed respawning at spawn (now respawn at random location or at your town,home,bed,ect.)
-players now get sent directly to main sever
-lobby forces adventure mode instead of survival. 

December 1, 2024
Server stuff:
-players get sent to lobby if main server is down.
-server performance has been improved with anti Lag plugin
-ghasts no longer spawn
-player counts have been readjusted to 50
-number of outposts have been reduced
-armor trims have been added to vote crates
-wildernesstp developer has been contacted and is working on fixing the wild plugin so it doesn't randomly teleport players that are in towns.
-Ancient Debris can now be found in certain locations on the map.
Web stuff: 
-votesites Minecraftservers.org and ​minecraft-mp.com have been given a banner.
-server wipe warning has been replaced with WIP warning
-Distant Horizons Guide has been added
-map has been moved to second option in page list.
-Website dev log has been updated.
-Some website images have been updated to feature up to date photos of the sever.

December 3, 2024
-players spawn at town, wildernesstp plugin has been fixed 

December 5, 2024
-changed difficulty to normal
-added new crafting recipies for logs, stripped logs, and stripped wood through the stonecutter.

December 7, 2024
-redid underground areas of the map with new ore placements.
-ancient debris are naturally found on the bottom of the world.
-copper ore nodes have been added
-caves have been regenerated to be more performance friendly
-the locations of ores on the y level have been readjusted.
-snow has been added to the top of the eastern continent's mountains.
-wandering traders have been disabled.
-money rewards for vote crates are now labeled
-Thanks to cave regeneration, lag prevention measures have been reduced and render distance is once again 32. Render distance will probably be reduced again but it stays high for the moment.
-updated viaversion, viabackwards, velocity, and gyser to support latest version

December 8, 2024
-fixed a performance problem related to storage. (didn't) :P just cleared out some space.
-removed potentially faulty ram that might have been causing issues
-players start with 100 dollars now.

December 9, 2024
-server now runs on an ssd which finally might fix the lag problems we've been having. (Update: It did :) )

December 11, 2024
-Altearthmc Now has banners on all votesites except TopG!
-New plugin added, lets players mine corals with shears and have them drop.
https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/shear-corals.121263/ 

December 12, 2024
-New vote sites added, on planet minecraft and minecraft-serverlist.com.
https://www.planetminecraft.com/server/altearthmc-6483402/vote/
https://minecraft-serverlist.com/server/2001/vote
-Updated website guide to include that shears can mine coral.
-Updated vote page to include new sites.

December 15, 2024
-antixray now hides ancient debris
-planet minecraft and minecraft-serverlist now give players crates, voting rewards were a bit broken.

December 19, 2024
-nether has been added 
-wildernesstp will no longer send players to stony shores.

December 31 - January 3, 2024
-outdated render distance info corrected on website
-Pigstep crate reward is no longer announced
-voting reward milestone is now a crate instead of a diamond
-nether with structures has been rendered and uploaded
-nether antixray fixed 
-simulation distance has been increased to 8 chunks. 
-motd updated to show support for 1.21.4 
-wildernesstp plugin fixed (bed spawnpoints now work properly) 
-server jar has been updated to 1.21.4! 
-updated plugins 
  -viaversion 
  -squaremap 
  -worldedit 
  -townyresources 
 -with update tonwyresources gives correct amount of items per stack
-(edited) has been removed on the above dev logs